[coreboot] commercially available 690 mainboards

[Tiago Marques]

You only need to add support for SB700, since the 740G boards are a
690G+SB700, instead of the SB600.

Perhaps it may be good to start work in the 740G?

Best regards,

                                   Tiago Marques

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:02:35AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > >> The Asus M2A-VM (not HDMI) is probably closest to usability. It has a
> > >> soldered PLCC32 BIOS chip, though. Video is mostly untested (VGA text
> > >> console works). I can send a patch to add the board to the tree if you
> want.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yes, please. I just ordered two from this place:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.motherboardpro.com/ASUS-M2A-VM-Socket-AM2-AMD-690G-Micro-ATX-AMD-Motherboard-Retail-p-522.html
> > >
> >
> > Newegg has them as well for $59.99.
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131172
>
> Nope, sold out - that's what the grey 'auto-notify' button means.
>
> > By the way, these boards are mostly out of stock in Europe. Just a
> > heads-up that the same condition might hit the US soon.
>
> Yeah, soon. It's already hard to find them.
>
> We need that 780 support real soon now, or we'll be in a situation where
> there are *no* desktop boards still available that we support within the
> next
> month or so :/
>
> Thanks,
> Ward.
>
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